Brown, Lader, and Fisher to Teach at BTP

Broadway Star and BTP Alum Ashley Brown, currently playing Mary Poppins in the Broadway hit Mary Poppins, Rob Fisher and Joan Lader will be teaching at Broadway Theatre Project in Tampa Week Two.

Ashley Brown (BROADWAY THEATRE PROJECT ALUM) (MONDAY-JULY 14):  Ashley feels honored to be playing the title role in the Broadway production of Mary Poppins. Ashley made her Broadway debut as Belle in Beauty and the Beast and has toured with Disney's On the Record. She also performed in The Leading Men of Broadway and participated in Broadway By the Year: 1956 and the MUNY. Training: Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (BFA, Laurie Beechman Award), Broadway Theatre Project.

Joan Lader (JULY 14-15): Joan Lader has worked as a speech pathologist and teacher in private practice in New York City for the past 28 years.  She has provided vocal therapy to singers and actors with injured voices as well as training elite Broadway, Opera, Pop and Rock singers. In addition, she has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University, Pace University, The Voice Foundation in Philadelphia, The Pacific Voice Foundation in San Francisco,  NYSTA (New York Singing Teacher's Association), Berklee College of
Music, as well as giving numerous Master Classes and workshops at Yale (Calhoun College), BTP (Broadway Theater Project), and "The Lost Colony " in North Carolina.  Ms. Lader is a certified master teacher of the Estill Voice Training System (EVTS) and has extensive training in The Alexander Technique as well as Fitzmaurice VoiceWork and the work of Arthur Lessac. Her teaching and therapy draw from all of these disciplines in order to individualize and address the specific needs of her widely varying patient population.

Rob Fisher (JULY 14-15): Specializes in classic musical theater.  He was music director and conductor of the Tony Award-winning Encores! series at New York's City Center from its inception in 1994 through 2005.  This series has led to many recordings for which he has served as the conductor and associate producer.  The Broadway hits Chicago, Wonderful Town, and the more recent Apple Tree began at the Encores! series, and Mr. Fisher was instrumental in their successful transfer to Broadway; he remains supervising music director of companies of Chicago around the world.  He conducted the Grammy Award-winning Chicago cast recording and the recently released Wonderful Town recording.  For four seasons Mr. Fisher was music director for Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company. He continues to be a frequent guest on A Prairie Home Companion.  In 2000, he was the music director for the New York premiere of Sondheim's Saturday Night.  In 2001 he conducted Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd with Patti LuPone, George Hearn, and the San Francisco Symphony, broadcast on PBS and available on DVD.  This spring, he made his critically acclaimed New York Philharmonic debut conducting My Fair Lady, and he has led many major U.S. orchestras.

Photo by Walter McBride/ Retna Ltd.

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